Thread 96385619

Sup /tg/, there was a thread on here the other day about Furry RPGS that I checked out of curiosity, and I found anons mention or discuss about a dozen RPGs I'd never heard of.

So, let's have a thread about games you haven't seen discussed good or bad. I feel safe thinking everybody's heard of the big ones like D&D and Shadowrun at least in passing, but I haven't seen Pic Related even mentioned in all my years on the board.

Nobody has played Mechanical Dream.

>>96386167

I skimmed a summary and it sounds like a fucking fever dream.

Like, I'm interested? But I have no idea where to even start.

>>96385619 (OP)

D&T, An anime simulator RPG that to my knowledge has never left Brazil. It's the kind of simple fun that can be set up in five minutes and is very beginner friendly.

>>96386498
Just wait until you try Noumenon.

>>96386514

>Bug Man RPG based on the works of Immanuel Kant

That shouldn't be as immediately coherent of an idea as it is.

Nobilis used to be very popular, but is rarely mentioned these days.

>>96385619 (OP)
Powered by pokemon, it's based on pbta

>>96385619 (OP)
You can find some obscure ttrpgs on private trackers. Whatever 'Ngenesis' is, for example.

There's also one called 'Fvlminata' where you play romans with guns.

My regular playgroup has gotten a bit tired of DnD (although we all still love Critical Role) so one of the ladies that got us all into this hobby (back when she was a he) recommended we tried pic related.

We were all a bit hesitant to try something new and learn a new ruleset but we've really come to love it and I recommend everyone give it a try

>>96386540
I remember hearing about the concept of this one and thinking it was really cool.

>>96385619 (OP)
Does Underground count as obscure? What about Mutant Chronicles and Kult? I feel like anything that isn't the usual big titles (dnd, shadowrun, wod, cyberpunk) is at least a little obscure because RPGs are such a niche genre but some are definitely more obscure than others. Like Hol for example.

>>96386540
>>96387343
If it came out today, Nobilis would be shat on for being needless complex, pretentious, and probably too woke. That big, white 2e book sure was pretty, though.

>>96385619 (OP)
I have looked into humblewood and it seems fun
Might grab the beginner set
Right now my group is playing Die Schwarze Katze which doesn't have a lot of players, even in Germany

Fates Worse than Death, Seekers, First Contact Team, and In Dark Alleys by Vajra Enterprises is what I would recommmend.

Vajra Enterprises is quite the philosophical tabletop game company and they include all sorts of different philosophies within their various games without trying to make one or the other morally superior or inferior....that includes right wing and left wing political philosophies.

Highly recommend them.

>>96385619 (OP)

Here's one so obscure I don't know the name of it:

A couple of years back, I leafed through an RPG book that had a unique facet of character creation. There was a map of superhero powers, and you could set your finger down in any block and follow any path. You could go as far as you wanted, but you couldn't double back to a square you left and you had to take every spot, so if you crossed a red "drawback" square you had to take it.

Loved the idea, but forgot the name of the book and never came across it or a variant of it again. Shame, I really thought it would catch on.

>>96389805

Mutant City Blues?

>>96389866

Bless you and the womb that bore you!

I love this system.
It's janky, it barely works all the time, Melee combat is a pain.

But it has all that you need to run a good pulpy modern insurgency campaign.

>>96385619 (OP)
It's been a decade since I heard /tg/ talk about Don't Rest Your Head.

>>96390642
Anon that’s kinda woke

>>96390642
Does the system handles counter-insurgency campaigns, too?

In 1979-80 I played High Fantasy a lot. Switched over to SPIs Dragonquest for a bit before settling on Runequest.

I have a lot of fond memories of running High Fantasy, it was a very fast combat system. I took a loo, at it a few years ago and couldn't make heads or tails out of it. Moorguard was a cool adventure.

>>96391033
For that, I'd probably go for Patrol: The vietnam war RPG. It has plenty built in to run a campaign where nothing is certain, and where High command is even more confusing.

>>96390965
Even acknowledging woke exists is woke, you wokester.

>>96387347
>Kult
It is the best game that I've never played.

>>96386167

I feel this way about Eclipse Phase.

I like the concept, I see it mentioned every so often.

I don't think a single session has ever actually occurred.

>>96393842
Role Playing Public Radio has several one shots, 2 campaigns in edition 1 and one campaign in edition 2. People do, in fact, play that game.

There's a podcast I really like called System Mastery where they go over out of print games. From the game that did VtM before VtM existed to movie tie ins that have no reasson to have a ttrpg (there's a Lawnmower Man ttrpg) or art game that make no sense. They have covered hundreds of titles at this point, some of them are pretty interesting. It's weird that even before the internet there was a ton of randos publishing their weird ideas, it makes me look at itch slop in a nicer light because that's how it has always been. A lot of titles itt have been covered.

>>96386514
Domino challenge system resolution is a very interesting fever dream

>>96387347
Kult is very popular among people who were trying alternative systems in the 90's.

>>96390698
People recommended it to me in the horror general.
I never really finished reading it

>>96393882
They also tried Dallas, the OG story game.
I feel there's something to the rules, making it pvp for narrative control is very soap opera. But I'm not sure I understood the system, much less get enough to transform it into something else.

>>96387330
Bravo.

lotta JPGs but no PDFs

Some obscure grid-based tactical RPGs that I enjoy are Tacticians of Ahm, level2janitor's Tactiquest, and Tailfeathers/Kazzam.

Much less obscure is Tom Abbadon's ICON 2.0, which is still being worked on.

Over the Edge is one of those rules lite systems similar to FATE. It is set on an island just off the coast of Africa and that's where the secret societies meet. It features a fully detailed map of the island and the locations there, as well as hundreds of NPCs. It relies on your characters exploring the island and getting into trouble. Imagine GTA, but all the characters are Strangers & Freaks. Since the system is very secondary to the setting, you might as well send your oWoD, Cyberpunk or Delta Green character over there on vacation. Just watch out because being in the wrong place at the wrong time could get you whacked.

there is not a single person on this planet who understands chuubo's

>>96399853
I don't really see the point in playing these types as RPGs because they don't do anything I want RPGs to do, but do they hold up as skirmish games if one guy controls all the PCs?

>>96400034

I have played and GMed all of the aforementioned games one-on-one before, yes.

>>96387347
Whar is Hol like? I remember looking for it in share thread, but no luck.

There's this game called "Scales", which is basically World of Darkness but with dragons.
...and a cooler setting, IMHO.
The game is available in the Trove, but only in French, but I translated the essential rules and lore, live on 4Chan. A compilation of this translation is available there:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p2Tux5Hr853LyQT2eqZDGmbRigwhuuzO6QbVBX5_EBI/

>>96399844
>lotta JPGs but no PDFs
Are we allowed to post pdfs again?

>>96400049
Everything about the """"games""" you """""run"""" require a massive asterisk.

id recommend eureka if it didnt suck fat ass

>>96403808
No

>>96399870
Tiffany Trilobite is one of the great npcs in the history of ttrpgs.

LOGAS is a clone of Amber Diceless stripped of the setting. I've never actually gotten to play it. In the 90s we played Amber Diceless plenty, but different group these days and no one is interested in "Wanna play a clone of a niche diceless system based on a setting you vaguely know, except without the setting." I still reread Amber once every couple years, but only the first five. Maybe I just need to get more enthusiastic about it to get others into it.

>>96391046
Are you talking about this game? What was it like? Does it play like D&D?

>>96407906
You'd really have to convince me to play Amber Diceless. It's not an appealing concept and the tidbits I've seen don't seem like they're working at all. My impression is that it's way too complicated to make a character and it means nothing if you're not doing what the GM wants you to do, except that there's no guardrails to know what the GM wants so you have to fuck around until you find out and you do the one thing you were supposed to do.

>>96399870
I heard a podcast covering it and found out I had downloaded it ages ago. It seems like way too much work to get a setting working, I tried to read it a couple times but I was absolutely filtered.
If I had it in the 90's with all the time in the world and very little competition it might have changed how I run games forever, but at this point I feel I can wing something close enough for players not to notice.

Crimson Exodus gets practically no attention, but it is pretty good. It uses the range of D4-D12 dice, and the dice can be scaled to roll either fewer high dice or more low dice. In addition to Crimson Exodus, it also comes as generic settingless fantasy as Fantasy Dice, and has a bit barebones sci-fi supplement Sci-Fi Dice.

>>96407934
It's mostly about political maneuvering and dreaming up weird schemes and roleplay. The system mostly exists to say "you're basically gods who can do anything, but some gods are better than others. Now figure out how to take power."

>>96403107
This is clearly fetish art.

Gonna be trying this badboy out soon.
Might have to build an excel sheet to figure out the success levels though.

The rules don't seem that complex, But I just want something faster to tell me if the roll passes or fail, and to what degree

>>96413041
It's a good game. Played it as a kid, it's not that hard to learn. The spy gadgets will be a bit dated but maybe some fansite has put out some stuff to bring it more up to date.
The biggest downside is that in the game like in life getting wounded hurts. A single pistol shot is bad enough, two pistol shots are likely to incapacitate. A single rifle shot can kill. Healing takes a long time because no magic.

>>96409690
>>96413041
>>96415575
Kill yourself.